Caterpillar Motoren Gmbh & Co. Kg

Jan Grebien

Volker Abraham

Frank Witt

Sascha Burkhard

Paul Mlynarczyk

Sebastian Eggers

Marco Petersen

Werner Rebelein

Yujie Huang

Sven Augustiniack

David Grenz

Stefan Lamp

A cylinder block of an engine is provided. The cylinder block includes a cast body defining one or more cylindrical bores. The cylinder block also includes a crankshaft bearing wall formed within the cast body. The crankshaft bearing wall is configured to be removably coupled with a bearing cap to define an opening for rotatably supporting a crankshaft of the engine. The cylinder block further includes a chamfered shoulder portion casted on the crankshaft bearing wall.

Cylinder block of internal combustion engine

An engine system includes an engine with a crankshaft. The crankshaft is rotatable about a crankshaft axis that is defined in a first plane. A turbocharger includes a turbine and a compressor. The turbine is configured to be driven by an exhaust gas flow from the engine and drive the compressor about a common turbocharger axis. An included angle defined between a projection of the common turbocharger axis onto the first plane and the crankshaft axis is an acute angle.

Turbocharger arrangement in engine systems

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Molfsee, Germany

Jan Grebien